Disambiguation

Use this on disambiguation pages. Typically these sort between different game's versions of the same articles. Or there's the Spider article, which has to disambiguate so much because OMG there's spiders everywhere.

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Special Link Templates

Item Links

You can use the Item template to make a fancy item link, which will automatically link to the relevant item page. Like this one:

{{Item|ITEMNAME|INSTALMENT|LINK}}
ITEMNAME
:The name of the item, first letter capitalized.
INSTALLMENT
:The installment
:examples: GBC, SRR, TPC, HGH
LINK
:The link, if it exists
:"SELF" links to the very word in ITEMNAME

If it's a type of item that only appears in one game, you don't really need to specify what game it appears in. If there is no image pre-arranged for the thing, a question mark will appear instead, like this:

Game Links

I may have gone a tad overboard with styling these, but I originally made these a quick way of linking to a game's article. Simply type {{game|#}} to make a link, with # to be replaced with the number of the instalment. There's also a short and full name version, see the source of what's in the table below for deets.

The problem here is that it's confusing for people who want to edit the content of the transclusion, to try to track down where that item is being transcluded from. If they don't understand transclusion, they may never figure it out. Wouldn't it be nice if a dashing young man decided to make a template that nicely sidestepped this potential problem? Well, too bad, because I already did it:

Grab and Get

I made two templates that are almost identical. Why? I don't remember. I think it may have been in the event you need to transclude an article that is already made up of transclusions. You don't want to nest templates in this way, the recursive loop will burrow a hole in spacetime continuum and all of a sudden we're up to our ankles in cacodemons. Anyway, they look like this:

{{grab|YOUR_BUTT}}

{{get|IN_THE_CHOPPER}}

Where the allcaps nonsense, obviously, replaced with the name of the article you want to magically appear in the spot you place the template. Then they dump the content and make a nice cute little key icon:

Well it looks dumb because that article doesn't exist, but you get the idea.

There's more! (noinclude and onlyinclude)

The raccoon are being really loud outside my window as I type this, but this isn't what I wanted to talk to you about. What you need to know is that if you're transcluding content from an article, but don't want some elements transcluded (for example: the navbox), you can and should either sandwich said unwanted elements betwixt some <noinclude></noinclude>, OR sandwich the wanted content betwixt <onlyinclude></onlyinclude>.

noinclude

Let me give you examples, to really nail this point home. Say you have a page that's full of delightful Lorem ipsum that you'd like to include in another, but there's an obnoxious NavBox and References section at the bottom that will be a total confusing eyesore in the article you want to transclude from, a place it has no business being. So you do this:

onlyinclude

Here's one more example, this time for onlyinclude. I'm going to be honest, I'm not sure if I've ever used it. I am also getting bored writing instructions, so this one's going to be in the form of a Star Trek fanfic.

So Captain Kirk is down on some planet making out with a green alien babe, but it turns out she's a dracula and starts biting him. He's like, "Argh, I'm getting killed here! Transclude me up, Scotty!"

And Scotty presses a bunch of buttons to calibrate the transporter transcluder, which runs on MediaWiki. He positions the trancluder's onlyinclude tags on his sensor readout of the planet's surface as follows:

==An alien planet==
Some rocks and weird ferns and stuff. A [[space dracula]]
is on <onlyinclude>Camptain Kirk</onlyinclude>'s back,
trying to suck his lifeforce out of his brain or something
like that.

And then Kirk is transcluded up to the enterprise without the space monster that was latched to his back. And later McCoy says some hurtful things about Vulcans to Spock, who doesn't show any emotions but cries into his pillow about it later.

Layout Templates

Columns

Col content follows "col-2" template if it's a half width.

Or "col-4" if it's a quarter width.

As you can imagine, other numbers will yield different column sizes.

Show/Hide Template

You can hide a big chunk of content:

This content has been hidden because it's either too long, too boring, or whatever.

Spoiler Hide Template

If there's some content that is spoilerriffic, use the Spoiler Templates to cover it up. It's simpler than the above, which you'd have to use for entire paragraphs. I know it's a tad ugly, I'll make it less so eventually.

{{H}}SPOILERCONTENT{{H end}}

Tabber Template

This is useful for making tall sections easier to navigate by putting everything in tabs. You can put as many tabs as you want, as long as there's enough room. I have used them to divvy up galleries.